Review This ProductMany believe that they would achieve success, prosperity and happiness in life, if they attain the material goals through the application of the law of struggle for existence, typical of nature. However, human beings are endowed with material, intellectual, as well as spiritual potentialities.

Technology, tourism, politics, and law have connected human beings around
the world more closely than ever before, but this closeness has,
paradoxically, given rise to fear, distrust, and misunderstanding between
nation-states and religions. In light of the tensions and conflicts that
arise from these complex relationships, many search for ways to find peace
and understanding through a “global public sphere.”

Contributors to this volume address various aspects of this challenge
within the context of Bahá’í thought and practice, whose goal is to lay the
foundations for a new world civilization that harmonizes the spiritual and
material aspects of human existence. Bahá’í teachings view religion as a
source of enduring insight that can enable humanity to repair and transcend
patterns of disunity, to foster justice within the structures of society,
and to advance the cause of peace. Accordingly, religion can and ought to
play a role in the broader project of creating a pattern of public
discourse capable of supporting humanity’s transition to the next stage in
its collective development.